“Nothing can work me damage except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about with me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.”

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

And thus communicates, without loss to itself, its superabundant water. In the Church at the present day, we have many canals, few reservoirs.

What I know of the divine science and holy scripture, I learnt in the woods and fields.

Wherever…thou shalt be, pray secretly within thyself. If thou shalt be far from a house of prayer, give not thyself trouble to seek for one, for thou thyself art a sanctuary designed for prayer. If thou shalt be in bed, or in any other place, pray there; thy temple is there.

Humility is, of all graces, the chiefest when it does not know itself to be a grace at all.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

The tears of those repenting are the wine of angels.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so – but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

Ingratitude is the soul’s enemy… Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of love, the dew of mercy, the streams of grace.

Learn the lesson that, if you are to do the work of a prophet, what you need is not a sceptre but a hoe.

Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.

The peacemakers shall be called the sons of God, who came to make peace between God and man. What then shall the sowers of discord be called, but the children of the devil? And what must they look for but their father’s portion?

A truly obedient man does not discriminate between one thing and another, since his only aim is to execute faithfully whatever may be assigned to him.

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man

What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Pride is the cause of the most damaging fall for the soul.

Two damaged people trying to heal each other, is love.

You don’t need an apology to get closure. The damage is your closure.

Housework, if it is done properly, can cause brain damage.

Loving someone unconditionally is equivalent to unintentionally losing yourself in the game, and the damage you inflict on yourself goes unaffected by your lack of self-awareness and self-realization.

But I didn’t understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Two damaged people trying to heal each other is love.

You came into my life, with all your baggage, treatin’ me like collateral damage.